Sofia and the Quetzal Bird
Title | Sofia and the Quetzal Bird PDF eBook |
Author | Adam Guillain |
Publisher | Raintree |
Total Pages | 32 |
Release | 2016-01-28 |
Genre | Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | 1474718299 |
Sofia travels back to her birthplace in Guatemala and learns more about her family's culture with the help of a quetzal bird.
Quetzals
Title | Quetzals PDF eBook |
Author | Sandra Donovan |
Publisher | Heinemann-Raintree Library |
Total Pages | 36 |
Release | 2002-01-01 |
Genre | Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | 9780739855300 |
An introduction to the habitat, physical characteristics, behavior, and life cycle of quetzals, beautiful birds that live in the rain forests of Central America and South America.
Dark Quetzal
Title | Dark Quetzal PDF eBook |
Author | Katherine Roberts |
Publisher | Chicken House |
Total Pages | 256 |
Release | 2004-04-01 |
Genre | Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | 9780439523097 |
Kyarra, a novice Singer, seeks to destroy evil and learn the truth about her mother and father, in the conclusion to the Echorium Sequence Trilogy. Reprint.
Quetzals and Other Latin American Birds / Quetzales y otras aves de Latinoamérica
Title | Quetzals and Other Latin American Birds / Quetzales y otras aves de Latinoamérica PDF eBook |
Author | Zella Williams |
Publisher | The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc |
Total Pages | 26 |
Release | 2009-08-15 |
Genre | Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | 1615313028 |
The quetzal is the national bird of Guatemala and lends its name to that country's currency. In fact, the quetzal has long been revered for its beautiful feathers. In ancient times, the Mayan people used quetzal feathers as money. Your fascinated readers will find out more about this resplendent bird and some of its neighbors, such as the toucan and the macaw.
Chican@ Artivistas
Title | Chican@ Artivistas PDF eBook |
Author | Martha Gonzalez |
Publisher | University of Texas Press |
Total Pages | 181 |
Release | 2020-07-27 |
Genre | Art |
ISBN | 1477321136 |
As the lead singer of the Grammy Award–winning rock band Quetzal and a scholar of Chicana/o and Latina/o studies, Martha Gonzalez is uniquely positioned to articulate the ways in which creative expression can serve the dual roles of political commentary and community building. Drawing on postcolonial, Chicana, black feminist, and performance theories, Chican@ Artivistas explores the visual, musical, and performance art produced in East Los Angeles since the inception of NAFTA and the subsequent anti-immigration rhetoric of the 1990s. Showcasing the social impact made by key artist-activists on their communities and on the mainstream art world and music industry, Gonzalez charts the evolution of a now-canonical body of work that took its inspiration from the Zapatista movement, particularly its masked indigenous participants, and that responded to efforts to impose systems of labor exploitation and social subjugation. Incorporating Gonzalez’s memories of the Mexican nationalist music of her childhood and her band’s journey to Chiapas, the book captures the mobilizing music, poetry, dance, and art that emerged in pre-gentrification corners of downtown Los Angeles and that went on to inspire flourishing networks of bold, innovative artivistas.
Quetzal
Title | Quetzal PDF eBook |
Author | Dorothy Hinshaw Patent |
Publisher | HarperCollins |
Total Pages | 40 |
Release | 1996-08-14 |
Genre | Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | 9780688126629 |
"This unusual book looks at the quetzal from many points of view: as the ancient Aztec god Quetzalcoatl; as a source of valuable feathers throughout Mesoamerican history; as a rainforest bird of striking beauty and intriguing habits; and as an endangered animal today....The writing weaves the many strands of myth, lore, art, and natural history into a coherent narrative....Drawings add their own sense of wonder and mystery. Well researched and handsomely presented, this book offers a many-faceted study of the quetzal."--Booklist. Bibliography, index, maps.
The Chicken and the Quetzal
Title | The Chicken and the Quetzal PDF eBook |
Author | Paul Kockelman |
Publisher | Duke University Press Books |
Total Pages | 0 |
Release | 2016-01-15 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 9780822360568 |
In The Chicken and the Quetzal Paul Kockelman theorizes the creation, measurement, and capture of value by recounting the cultural history of a village in Guatemala's highland cloud forests and its relation to conservation movements and ecotourism. In 1990 a group of German ecologists founded an NGO to help preserve the habitat of the resplendent quetzal—the strikingly beautiful national bird of Guatemala—near the village of Chicacnab. The ecotourism project they established in Chicacnab was meant to provide new sources of income for its residents so they would abandon farming methods that destroyed quetzal habitat. The pressure on villagers to change their practices created new values and forced negotiations between indigenous worldviews and the conservationists' goals. Kockelman uses this story to offer a sweeping theoretical framework for understanding the entanglement of values as they are interpreted and travel across different and often incommensurate ontological worlds. His theorizations apply widely to studies of the production of value, the changing ways people make value portable, and value's relationship to ontology, affect, and selfhood.